... ? Dorril accepts that there is a need for something like a security cum intelligence agency, and he reiterates the familiar left demand for Parliamentary scrutiny. His thesis appears to me to be that if they did their job more intelligently, they could be a genuine bulwark of democracy. 'Perhaps it is time for the ''sensible chaps'' in MI6 to rescue their political initiatives', Dorril concludes in his chapter on Ireland. This 'sensibleness' is the hallmark of the current reforms, which have resulted in copies of what amounts to MI5's prospectus being flogged in good bookshops for £4.95. Sensibleness: doesn't this strike a hollow tone?' Silent Conspiracy was published round about the ...

... became head of MI5, in Belfast...It was the liaison office between the Foreign Office and the Northern Ireland situation. And whilst he (Mooney) kept the General Officer Commanding briefed he really reported to that office.' This is important confirmation of one of the central political facts about Information Policy: it was perceived as partly an MI6 operation. Hence the hostility to Wallace shown by MI5 when it got overall control of the intelligence set-up in Northern Ireland. Rubbishing Wallace Since what has now become 'the Wallace Affair' broke again at the end of January, all the major disinformation lines on Wallace seen previously have been rerun, though not with the same conviction as before ...

... might start to take seriously if it had some credible sources attached to it-- which is true of most of Judge's stuff); a report on a recent JFK assassination conference; an interview with the AIDS theorist Alan Cantwell, and some shorter pieces on the Waco siege, the Danny Casolaro story, and the death of the British MI6 agent Ian Spiro. A $5.00 bill should elicit a sample copy from Paranoia, PO Box 3570, Cranston, RI 02910, USA. (Subs outside the U.S. $24.00 for 4 issues but if Lobster or Covert Action is your thing, I would try one first.) Both Back Channels and Paranoia seem to me ...

... publication of Solzhenitzen's Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close to the British state. 'The instigators of the attack were not Private Eye satirists but professional rivals...experts from the Sovietology world, Kremlinologists on the fringes of the CIA or MI6, other writers and journalists who specialized in Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward.... [who] were gripped by the paranoia of those days, the belief in the all-conquering guile of the KGB.... Leo Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, ...

... the European Movement. After becoming president of the Scottish Union of Students he became manager of the intelligence-linked Fund for International Student Cooperation (FISC), the outfit at the centre of student politics rows in the 1960s in which a key figure was Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay, later, if not at the time, a member of MI6. Ramsay, a student friend of Foulkes, was secretary of FISC, an alleged CIA front operation. Foulkes went on to become Scottish organiser of the European Movement and director of the European League for Economic Co-operation, an organisation which likewise gave brief employment, before a safe Labour seat and a parliamentary career, to Roy (now ...

... exempt from the duty to communicate the information requested, but does have a duty to confirm whether or not it holds the information, and should inform you where it is. Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning:the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) (s23). Other records covered by an absolute exemption are court records (s32); disclosures that would infringe parliamentary privilege (s34) and where ...

... mind control Plundering the Public Sector The Intelligence Files: Today's secrets, tomorrow's scandals The Cliveden Set Pieces without an author's name are by the editor Parish Notices Thanks to the usual suspects for information, especially Jane Affleck and Robert Henderson for the continuous stream of articles; and to Phil Chamberlain who spotted Norman Baker's House of Commons adjournment debate on MI6. The content of a number of the articles and reviews in this issue may seem to overlap or to be related. I could claim that this was clever editing on my part but it is an accident; or, perhaps, something more than an accident but unintentional. Sometimes the people who write for this magazine just end up ...

... country Tom Mangold's Cold Warrior and accounts of the damaging effects of Angleton's paranoia on the Agency's attempts to understand the Soviet Union.(5) In this briefing war the anti-Angleton forces won and the consensus formed that Angleton was a nutter who did terrible damage to the CIA and, by extension, to allied intelligence agencies such as MI5 and MI6.(6) This anti-Angleton consensus is challenged by his former ally Begley, who reanalyses the Nosenko affair and tries to show the reader that their counterintelligence's view that Nosenko had been sent to disinform them and so conceal the identity of the KGB's real mole inside the CIA, was correct. Potentially this is fascinating who doesn't like a ...

... are innocent? Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq Freeing the World to Death: essays on the American empire The Great Unravelling: From boom to bust in three scandalous years Confessions of an Economic Hitman Gordon Brown A Century of War: Anglo-American oil politics and the new world order Morningside Mata Haris: How MI6 deceived Scotland's great and good The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, open government and the Hutton Inquiry NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe The Rise of Political Lying Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers Feedback Pieces without an author's name are by the editor ...

... story. Richard Aldrich began his paper by emphasising the fact that creating the right environment for 'freedom' was not enough; 'freedom' had to be organised in civil society if it was going to win, particularly as communist-affiliated groups were attempting to take the initiative on this soon after WWII. As Stephen Dorril has stressed in his book on MI6, the British involvement in these activities was ahead of the Americans in many respects. Aldrich related how the Cultural Relations Department, a forerunner to the more familiar Information Research Department in the Foreign Office, was already operating in 1946-47. Concentrating on the communist-supported World Federation of Democratic Youth, the CRD first tried to 'turn' it, ...